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NITED STATES FRANKLIN A. SMITH, JR, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

LACING-IHOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 266,651, dated October31, 1889.

Application filed August 14, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FRANKLIN A. SMITH, J r.,of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, have invented a new anduseful Lacing-Hook; and I do hereby declare that the followingspecification, taken in connection with the drawings making a part ofthe same, is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

Figure 1 is a view of the blank. Fig. 2 is a side view of hook, showingmanner of attachment. Figs. 3 and 4 are modifications of my invention,the latter showing the blank and the former the same bent into shape andready for attachment.

The object of my invention is to produce a lacing-hook which can beeasily and readily attached to the fabric without the aid of aninstrument, and which will at the same time possess as great strengthand durability as other devices forlike purposes nowinuse; anditconsistsof a blank cut from sheet metal, having a suitably-shaped projection atone side, which is subsequently bent over to form the hook, the wholebeing constructed in such a manner that the hook may be passed from theunder side through a hole in the material not sufficientin size topermit the passage of the base-plate whereby the hook is retained inplace and secured.

In the drawings, A, Fig. 1, is the blank. 13, Fig. 2, is the blank bentinto shape and at tached to the material C. The blank A is formed fromsheet metal, and the projection d thereof is bent overthe plate 0 toform the hook. The neck of the blank or hook is rounded so as to presenta smooth surface and prevent the undue wearing or cutting of the lacing,and the head of the hook may be rounded to give a smooth and neatappearance, as well as to avoid injury to other articles with which itmay come in contact.

To secure the device to the fabric a hole is first cut or punchedtherein, when the hookis pushed through the opening thus made from theunder side. The base-plate, to which the hook is connected, being muchlonger than the aperture necessary to permit the passage of the hookitself, it cannot bedrawn through, and the hook is thus secured.

If desired, the material may be re-enforced about the hole or opening byplacing around the edges thereof a metallic covering, which will preventit from enlarging or tearing and allowing the base-plate to be pulledthrough and the base-plate may be covered by stitching over it somematerial which will prevent its removal when not in use.

A modification of my invention described is shown in Figs. 3 and 4, inwhich the prong or projection forming the hook is struck from the centerof the plate.

Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The metallic button-blank A, adapted to be bent or molded to form thehook d, and plate c, all substantially as shown and described.

FRANKLIN A. SMITH, JR.

Witnesses:

WALTER B. VINCENT, W. HOWARD WALKER.

